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Edward Dmytryk
American
Director
About the author
Technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
#Nothing
#Humanity
#Skill
With me it was that defending the Communist Party was something worse than naming the names.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
#Party
#Names
The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
#Film
#Aesthetics
The only reason for using another cut is to improve the scene.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
#Reason
Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
In art, the obvious is a sin.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
#Art
#Sin
#Obvious
I was surprised to see the meeting was of Communists and the whole meeting was along Communist lines.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
#Meeting
I only knew a few people, literally a handful of people, al of whom had been in the Party long before I was, all of whom were known by the FBI and were known to the Committee.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
#People
#Committee
#Party
I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party and our traditional democratic structure I would fight the Party to the bitter end.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
#End
#Fight
#Choice
#Party
I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.
Edward Dmytryk,
American
Director
#Sacrifice
#Family
#Career
#Being
#Defense
#Party
#Distrust